Jim Hart
Mammalogist / QBS
Jim Hart came to Wildlife Specialists after 15 years with the Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program. Before working with the Heritage Program, Jim was employed as a temporary biologist with the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC). During his tenure with both, he was responsible for the inventory and monitoring of all small mammal species of concern, various bat programs such as hibernacula surveys and maternity colony monitoring and determining the distribution and status of the Allegheny Woodrat in Pennsylvania.
Jim received both his B.S. and M.S. at Shippensburg University under the guidance of Dr. Gordon L. Kirkland, Jr., while working on a variety of projects at the Shippensburg University Vertebrate Museum. Upon the untimely death of Dr. Kirkland, Jim was responsible for transferring the Vertebrate Museum collection, ranked in the top 30 in size in the western hemisphere, to the State Museum of Pennsylvania where he currently holds the position of Field Associate and Volunteer. Jim has been involved with several international expeditions including one to Guatemala where he worked on a Black Howler Monkey project and to the Turks and Caicos working as a Cave and Bat Specialist mapping bat hibernacula on East Caicos Island. During his career, Jim has written many reports and papers including: the Bat Hibernacula Management Plan for Pennsylvania; chapters in several mammal books; and articles in various peer-reviewed journals, concerning the status and distributions of mammals in Pennsylvania and the northeast region of the United States.
Currently Jim is a certified Qualified Indiana Bat Surveyor and stays current on research and fieldwork pertaining to White-nose Syndrome, a disease that is decimating bat populations along the eastern portion of the United States. He also serves as an Allegheny Woodrat expert, conducting live-trapping surveys, visual habitat surveys and creating woodrat habitat management plans. He continues to maintain the PGC Terrestrial Small Mammal Survey database and serves as recording secretary on the Mammal Technical Committee of the Pennsylvania Biological Survey.
To contact please email
jim@wildlife-specialists.com
Jim received both his B.S. and M.S. at Shippensburg University under the guidance of Dr. Gordon L. Kirkland, Jr., while working on a variety of projects at the Shippensburg University Vertebrate Museum. Upon the untimely death of Dr. Kirkland, Jim was responsible for transferring the Vertebrate Museum collection, ranked in the top 30 in size in the western hemisphere, to the State Museum of Pennsylvania where he currently holds the position of Field Associate and Volunteer. Jim has been involved with several international expeditions including one to Guatemala where he worked on a Black Howler Monkey project and to the Turks and Caicos working as a Cave and Bat Specialist mapping bat hibernacula on East Caicos Island. During his career, Jim has written many reports and papers including: the Bat Hibernacula Management Plan for Pennsylvania; chapters in several mammal books; and articles in various peer-reviewed journals, concerning the status and distributions of mammals in Pennsylvania and the northeast region of the United States.
Currently Jim is a certified Qualified Indiana Bat Surveyor and stays current on research and fieldwork pertaining to White-nose Syndrome, a disease that is decimating bat populations along the eastern portion of the United States. He also serves as an Allegheny Woodrat expert, conducting live-trapping surveys, visual habitat surveys and creating woodrat habitat management plans. He continues to maintain the PGC Terrestrial Small Mammal Survey database and serves as recording secretary on the Mammal Technical Committee of the Pennsylvania Biological Survey.
To contact please email
jim@wildlife-specialists.com
